Communist Party of Ireland

The Communist Party of Ireland is a communist political party in Ireland, founded in 1933. The party was weakened due to W.T. Cosgrave's ban on the Communist Party and its 1941 dissolution in the republic, but it would be recreated in Ireland in 1948 and united with Northern Ireland's communist party in 1970. The party provided most of the Irish volunteers who fought with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, but the party had only around 100 members during the 1960s. During the 1970s, its membership grew, but the rise of the Workers' Party of Ireland led to the decline fo the CPI, and it is currently a minor party.